IBM Business Intelligence Pattern with BLUAccelerationVersion 1.2.0

Quick Start GuideThis guide gets you started with a typical installation for IBM Business Intelligence Pattern with BLUAcceleration.

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Product overviewIBM® Business Intelligence Pattern with BLU Acceleration is a collection of elements that describes a complete softwaresolution. It integrates IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence and IBM DB2® with BLU Acceleration to work on large data volumes atunprecedented speeds. It contains reusable and customizable components that collectively make an automation package for thesolution deployment.

1 Step 1: Access the software and documentationTo download IBM Business Intelligence Pattern with BLU Acceleration Version 1.2.0 from IBM Passport Advantage®,follow the instructions in the download document (www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037529).

Review the Release Notes (www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27042687) for late breaking installation andconfiguration issues.

For complete documentation, including the IBM Business Intelligence Pattern with BLU Acceleration Installation andAdministration Guide, see IBM Knowledge Center (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.cbi.doc/welcome.html).

2 Step 2: Evaluate the hardware and system configurationReview the IBM Business Intelligence Supported Software Environments reports (www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27042164).

Review the product license to ensure that you have the necessary authorizations to support your topology and that youunderstand the usage restrictions for all software components that are included with the product.

3 Step 3: Install and deploy the patternPerform the following steps:1. Ensure that the prerequisite shared services are deployed to your cloud group.2. Ensure that you have the installation kits for IBM DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server and IBM Cognos Business

Intelligence available. To determine the required software versions, see the IBM Business Intelligence SupportedSoftware Environments reports (www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27042164).

3. Run the installation script to upload the pattern type to your system.4. Accept the license agreement and enable the pattern type.5. Deploy your pattern to create a virtual application instance.6. Install necessary fix packs, available from Fix Central (http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral). To determine the fix

packs to install, review the IBM Business Intelligence Supported Software Environments reports(www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27042164).

4 Step 4: Install client applicationsClient applications require a Microsoft Windows or Linux operating system. For installation instructions for the followingclient applications, see the IBM Business Intelligence Pattern with BLU Acceleration Dynamic Cubes Installation andConfiguration Guide at IBM Knowledge Center (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.cbi.doc/welcome.html).1. Install IBM Cognos Cube Designer, which you use to model dynamic cubes.2. Install IBM Cognos Dynamic Query Analyzer, which includes Aggregate Advisor. Install Cognos Dynamic Query

Analyzer to its own location, separate from Cube Designer and other client installations.

After installing the client applications, you must configure the client applications to connect to the IBM Cognos BusinessIntelligence virtual application instance.

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More information

? For more information, see the following resources.v IBM Business Intelligence Pattern with BLU Acceleration support website (http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/

overview/software/cognos/business_intelligence_pattern_with_blu_acceleration).v IBM Cognos Business Intelligence support website (http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/overview/software/

cognos/cognos_business_intelligence).

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